Obama's power grab reinforces public distrust

5:17 PM,
Jun. 13, 2013

Written by

Glenn Harlan Reynolds

"How ironic is that? We wanted a president that listens to all Americans - now we have one." That was Jay Leno's take on the Obama administration's expanding NSA spying scandal, which has gone beyond Verizon phone records to include Google, Facebook, Yahoo and just about all the other major tech companies except, apparently, for Twitter.

The NSA spying scandal goes deep, and the Obama administration's only upside is that the furor over its poking into Americans' private business on a wholesale basis will distract people from the furor over the use of the IRS and other federal agencies to ...